"As some may or may not know, Jesper Strömblad has struggled for some time with alcoholic abuse, and decided to sit this one out (South America/Australia/Japan) in order to seek help and focus on rehabilitation and all that comes with it. We all talked about it and together with Jesper we chose to ask our longtime friend Niclas Engelin (Engel, ex-Gardenian), who helped us before, to complete the tour. We are all sad that it needed to come to this, but health comes first. Thanks for your understanding."

In other news, In Flames also won all three Bandit Rock Awards the band was nominated for, namely Best Swedish Band, Best Swedish Album and Best Swedish Live Band. The Bandit Rock Awards were held in Stockholm at Tyrol last Friday (January 30th). For more info, click here.

I'd be a drunk to if I had to play such shit music for the last 9 years....

This is not about you, nor what you deem shitty music And nine years ago, you were nine... You see what I did here.

EDIT: besides dude, you have In Flames between your Attended gigs list and In Flames records in your collection. What kind of a hypocrite are you? I can understand you're a fan of the old material, but that's not a reason to jump on the hate-In Flames-bandwagon.

Anyway, despite their latest couple of efforts, which were mediocre at best, Jesper Strömblad still is key in this band...

In Flames were, are and always will be an amazing band. True, Come Clarity was terrible, but I really enjoyed their latest album and everything else before that. I still love them and always will. You can't expect a band to release the same sounding crap over and over again.

All the best to Jesper. He is a great guitarist and shall overcome and be back better than ever.

I guess that's what you get for being a WoW addict, hahahahah... AND writing shitty music for the past 9 years, of course, lol...
I still wish him luck with the recovery, but I sure hope the overcoming of this "issue" of his inspires him to start writing some quality stuff at last...OR, if that's too much to ask, to give up on WoW at least - I've always said that stuff can kill, mhahahahaha...

I'd be a drunk to if I had to play such shit music for the last 9 years....

EDIT: besides dude, you have In Flames between your Attended gigs list and In Flames records in your collection. What kind of a hypocrite are you? I can understand you're a fan of the old material, but that's not a reason to jump on the hate-In Flames-bandwagon.

Hahaha, looking at someones profile is always the best way to counter attack.

I'd be a drunk to if I had to play such shit music for the last 9 years....

EDIT: besides dude, you have In Flames between your Attended gigs list and In Flames records in your collection. What kind of a hypocrite are you? I can understand you're a fan of the old material, but that's not a reason to jump on the hate-In Flames-bandwagon.

Hahaha, looking at someones profile is always the best way to counter attack.

I'd be a drunk to if I had to play such shit music for the last 9 years....

EDIT: besides dude, you have In Flames between your Attended gigs list and In Flames records in your collection. What kind of a hypocrite are you? I can understand you're a fan of the old material, but that's not a reason to jump on the hate-In Flames-bandwagon.

Hahaha, looking at someones profile is always the best way to counter attack.

I didn't mean for it seem as harsh as people are taking it. I love old In Flames. I don't like the new stuff but don't have that much hate for it. Maybe the words "such shit music" was a bit to harsh. maye mediocre would have been better

That's a serious disease, and a hard one to conquer (not to mention it's a lot more genetic than most people care to believe)

Genetic disposition to alcoholism is very true. I too hope he has a speedy recovery. But he hasn't got a disease, as much as they'd like you to believe that. It wasn't a disease that made him drink alcohol, and it wasn't disease that made him the addict he is now. Just bad genes and bad willpower.

Since he's not the one that preforms most of the solos i guess it would be ok

That doesn't matter - he's still a vital member. He's been there since the beginning. It's better to focus on his music than being drunk on stage, whatever the difficulty. I respect that. Cheerz Jesper! Good luck!